Publication date: 2007-06-30
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $19.36
Price: $98.16
Review WAYS OF ESCAPE: A Memoir / Key Porter Books:In this exceptional and fascinating memoir, Graham Greene, who has been called the greatest English novelist of his time, retraces the experiences and encounters of a long and extraordinary life. In Ways of Escape , Greene takes each of his novels as a point of departure for bringing together his reflections on his life and writing over 50 years. With ironic delight he recalls his time in the British Secret Service in Africa, and his brief involvement in Hollywood. He writes, as only he can, about people and places, about faith, doubt, fear and, not least, the trials and crafts of writing. Filled with wit, compassion and insight, Ways of Escape is also a unique contribution to the understanding of a great novelist, a man who throughout his life always chose to remain private, in the shadows. Praise for Graham Greene: “There is no better storyteller in English today. ”-V. S. Pritchett “As good as the best of its kind-marvelously rich. ” –William Trevor, The Guardian.
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $97.99
Price: $97.99
Review My Life / IndyPublish.com:
Publication date: 2008-09-11
List Price: $98.99
Price: $98.99
Review Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, V2 / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2003-03-14
Dewey code: 813.52
Price: $45.00
Review Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow / McFarland & Company:"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?. The Shadow knows!" And who knew The Shadow better than his creator, Walter B. Gibson. Relatively few people have heard of Gibson, but many more are familiar with The Shadow having heard the program on the Blue Coal Radio Program in the 1930s and read the Street & Smith Shadow novels. Walter B. Gibson's life and career come out from behind The Shadow in this biography. It covers his growing up years in Philadelphia, his development as a writer and magician, his wives, including the third, Litzka, who was a harpist and magician in her own right, his time living in Maine and upstate New York, and his later years and death. In addition to being credited with creating The Shadow (he used the pseudonym Grant Maxwell), Gibson wrote 187 books, contributed 668 articles to periodicals, created 282 stories for The Shadow Magazine, wrote 48 separate syndicated feature columns, reported the adventures of The Shadow and Blackstone the magician in 394 comic books and newspaper strips, and helped develop 147 radio scripts and many other works under numerous pseudonyms. [+]Gibson has invented many widely used magic tricks and traveled with and befriended Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, Sr. , and Joseph Dunninger.
Publication date: 2003-03
List Price: $24.95
Price: $149.99
Review When Money Grew on Trees: The True Tale of a Marijuana Moonshiner and the Outlaw Sheriff of Madison County, Arkansas / David McElyea:
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 796
Price: $14.50
Review Turkey Hunters and the People We Meet / Authorhouse:Turkey Hunters and The People We Meet introduces us to some wonderful people that all turkey hunters are likely to recognize even if the names are not the same. Turkey hunters will find their own hunting memories rekindled by these beautifully woven tales that focus on the nature of the people who hunt the gobbling monarch of the spring. This is not one of the countless "how to hunt wild turkey books"; instead it is written for the purpose of allowing turkey hunters to further experience the grand bird that captivates our imagination. Settle in and experience turkeys and the people who hunt them in places reaching to the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, the oak hammocks of South Florida, the swamps of Alabama, the brush country of South Texas, the Low Country of South Carolina, and several places in between. It is certain that Turkey Hunters and the People We Meet will become a coffee table fixture for all turkey hunters, undoubtedly reading these tales over and over again on the cold nights of February and early March as their minds begin the ritualistic preparation for the impending spring season.
Creator: Europa-América
Publication date: 2007
Price: $98.93
Review Mussolini - / Europa-América:Mussolini é recordado como um dos mais importantes ditadores fascistas do século xx, tendo governado o país desde 1922 até 1943. Mas o seu domínio terminou em desastre militar e humilhação pessoal, e ele foi executado em 1945. Quem foi então este homem que, sessenta anos depois da sua morte, é ainda considerado por admiradores modernos como o «Último Homem na Europa»? Que influência teve a sua personalidade peculiar na forma como exerceu o poder e na história da Itália? Esta reveladora biografia debruça-se sobre as profundas contradições do ditador fascista os seus talentos e as suas inseguranças, a sua imagem ditatorial e a sua submissão efectiva a outros poderes. E reflecte como o retrato de um político que foi o pioneiro da «mediacracia» apresenta uma chocante semelhança com o governo de políticos contemporâneos.
Publication date: 1998-04-01
Dewey code: 839.81372
List Price: $35.00
Price: $117.88
Review Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: Karen Blixen's Untold Story / Coulsong List:This new analysis of "Out of Africa" describes the young Baroness Blixen's struggles with a difficult marriage, a pioneer coffee farm, and a complicated love affair in Kenya. -This text refers to the paperback edition of this title.
Authors
- Rebecca Ross
- Peggy Ford
- Shirley Brand
- Laureen Lafferty Schaffer
Review Greeley, Colorado: The Historical Picture Album / Pediment Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-08-16
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $105.00
Price: $99.00
Review Lord of the Pyrenees: Gaston Fébus, Count of Foix (1331-1391) / Boydell Press:The reign of Gaston III, Count of Foix and self-proclaimed sovereign Lord of Béarn, stands out as one of the rare success stories of the 'calamitous' fourteenth century. By playing a skilful game of shifting allegiances and timely defiance, he avoided being drawn into the conflicts between his more powerful neighbours - France and English Aquitaine, Aragon and Castile - thus sparing his domains the devastations of warfare. Best known as a patron of the arts, and the author of a celebrated Book of the Hunt, Fébus - as he styled himself - also prefigures the eighteenth-century 'enlightened despots' with his effort to centralize government, protect natural resources and promote enterprise. But a sequence of mysterious tragedies - the abrupt dismissal of his wife, the slaying of his only legitimate son - reveal the dark side of the brilliant and enigmatic 'Sun Prince of the Pyrenees'.
Publication date: 2003-04
List Price: $98.99
Price: $98.99
Review Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands / IndyPublish.com:Travel journals and letters by the American author and abolitionist famous for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Creator: Europa-América
Edition: Reimpressão: 2005
Publication date: 2005
Price: $98.98
Review Lincoln - Biografia / Europa-América:Como ardente defensor da unidade nacional, um sólido líder na guerra e o emancipador dos escravos, Abraham Lincoln apresenta sólidos argumentos para ser considerado um dos maiores presidentes norte-americanos. Esta biografia examina a figura de Lincoln como político em ascensão e como presidente e centra-se nas fontes da sua autoridade e realizações. Revela os seus talentos políticos e os seus sérios propósitos morais, mas mostra também como ele dependia da opinião pública e da maquinaria do partido. Mostra o homem que pôs a América a declamar In God We Trust e que expandiu generosamente os poderes constitucionais do presidente sendo, por outro lado, considerado pelos amigos como inapto para exercer a presidência e pelos inimigos causador de uma carnificina sem precedentes.
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 818.5409
Price: $13.00
Review Letters from Dwight / Xenos Books:A "down and out" memoir describing slum life in Southern California. The author, an ex-professor of Russia, rents rooms on Dwight Avenue (Riverside) to an incredible series of oddballs, meanwhile trying to keep up with events in the collapsing Soviet Union and to maintain contact with his broken family. His letters, transcribed from cassette recordings sent in the 1980's, describe the most ordinary and yet fantastic experiences: going to a strange Halloween party, living with a religious maniac, reading aloud to friends with a barn owl perched on his shoulder, visiting his hometown (Washington DC) and getting lost on the beltway, discovering the filthiest toilets in the world (Moscow), dealing with crazy Russians, debating with professors at the university, running madly after sex, suffering serious injury in karate class, riding in an ambulance with bullets whistling all around, freaking out from the medications. It's an unusual ride with an author who speaks with urgency, irony and brutal wit.
Creator: Marcel Raymond
Publication date: 1959
Review Oeuvres Completes de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Volume 1) / Librairie Gallimard:Ce volume contient: Introductions - Chronologie - I. Les Confessions - II. Rousseau Juge de Jean Jacques Dialogues - III. Les Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire - IV. Fragments Autobiographiques et Documents Biographiques - Notices Bibliographiques.
Publication date: 2008-10-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $97.99
Price: $97.99
Review The Story of My Life / IndyPublish:
Authors
- Robert Falconer
- Mark Falstein
Publication date: 2002-03-19
Dewey code: 616.8583690092
List Price: $140.00
Price: $102.20
Review A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse: The Insiders / Routledge:Robert Blackburn Knight had everything a man could want: intelligence, physical strength, financial security, close friends, a loving girlfriend, and a beautiful home. But he also had mysterious physical pains, a bisexual father who had been beaten to death in an unsolved murder, a forever ailing mother, a brother who had been killed in a car accident on the way to his eighteenth birthday party, and a sense that all these facts were somehow connected. He also had the Insiders. These sub-personalities knew the story; they kept the secrets and held back the pain. But as he went through therapy, they emerged, told their stories, and helped him face the brutal, ongoing sexual abuse by his parents that made his childhood a nightmare of terror, shame and pain. Few male survivors of sexual abuse have spoken out to tell their stories, but now A MAN'S RECOVERY FROM TRAUMATIC CHILDHOOD ABUSE breaks the silence. Because the author is a trained therapist as well as a survivor, he weaves psychological theory into his personal story. This unique dual view allows the emotional and intellectual comprehension to develop in parallel, and will make for a passionately honest and completely unique resource for therapists, abuse survivors and the people who love them.
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 920
Price: $27.95
Review Taste Buds: A Love Story in Recipes: A Life in Recipes / Rugged Land:
Publication date: 2003-06
Dewey code: 797
Price: $54.95
Review Shooting H2O / A. & C. Black, Ltd.:This book is the story, in words and pictures, of a journey. Rick Tomlinson's journey as a photographer - to places and through time. An extraordinary account, and an exceptional collection - the work of the man who defines Shooting H2O.
Creator: GEORGE HARVEY
Publication date: 1918
Review THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW JULY 1918 / NEW YORK 171 MADISON AVE.:
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $98.99
Price: $98.99
Review Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest / IndyPublish.com:
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